Tom Prendergast (Gaelic footballer)

Tom Prendergast
Personal information
Irish name	Tomás de Priondragás
Sport	Gaelic football
Position	Right wing-back
Born	1943 Castlemaine, County Kerry
Height	5 ft 8 in (1.73 m)
Club(s)
Years	Club
1950s-1970s	Keel
Club titles
Kerry titles	1 Football 1 Hurling
Inter-county(ies)
Years	County	Apps (scores)
1966-1973	Kerry Wicklow Donegal Cork	23 (1-06)
Inter-county titles
Munster titles	4
All-Irelands	2
NFL	3
All Stars	0

Tom Prendergast (born 1943 in Castlemaine, County Kerry) is an Irish former sportsperson. He played Gaelic football with his local club Keel and was a member of the Kerry senior inter-county team in the 1960s and 1970s.^[1] He won the Texaco Footballer of the Year in 1970. During the 1960s he also played with Wicklow, Donegal and Cork.

At club level with Keel he won a Kerry Intermediate Football Championship, Kerry Junior Football Championship and a number of Mid Kerry Senior Football Championship, he also won a Kerry Senior Football Championship with Mid Kerry. He also played hurling with the Killarney club and won a County Hurling Championship medal in 1969.

References

↑ "Kerry GAA profile". www.hoganstand.com. Retrieved 2010-04-09.

Sporting positions
Preceded by Michael Gleeson (politician)	Kerry Senior Football Captain 1972	Succeeded by Paudie O'Donoghue

Kerry – 1968 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship runners-up

1 J. Culloty 2 S. Murphy 3 P. O'Donoghue 4 S. Burrows 5 Denis O'Sullivan 6 M. Morris 7 Donie O'Sullivan 8 M. O'Connell 9 M. Fleming 10 B. Lynch 11 P. Griffin (c) 12 É. O'Donoghue 13 T. Prendergast 14 D.J. Crowley 15 M. O'Dwyer Subs used P. Moynihan for T. Prendergast S. Mac Gearailt for S. Burrows

Kerry – 1969 All-Ireland Senior Football Champions (21st title)

1 J. Culloty (c) 2 S. Murphy 3 P. O'Donoghue 4 S. Mac Gearailt 5 T. Prendergast 6 M. Morris 7 M. Ó Sé 8 M. O'Connell 9 D. J. Crowley 10 B. Lynch 11 P. Griffin 12 É. O'Donoghue 13 M. Gleeson 14 L. Higgins 15 M. O'Dwyer Subs (none played): D. O'Sullivan M. Fleming D. O'Donnell J. O'Keeffe D. Crowley Manager J. Lyne

Kerry – 1970 All-Ireland Senior Football Champions (22nd title)

1 J. Culloty 2 S. Murphy 3 P. O'Donoghue 4 D. O'Sullivan (c) 5 T. Prendergast 6 J. O'Keeffe 7 M. Ó Sé 8 M. O'Connell 9 D. J. Crowley 10 B. Lynch 11 P. Griffin 12 É. O'Donoghue 13 M. Gleeson 14 L. Higgins 15 M. O'Dwyer Sub used S. Mac Gearailt Subs not used: P.J. Burns D. Crowley T. O'Donnell P. Finnegan Manager J. Lyne

Kerry – 1972 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship runners-up

Subs used in drawn game: D. Crowley for S. Mac Gearailt; P. Griffin for L. Higgins
Subs used in replay: D. Crowley for S. Mac Gearailt; P. Griffin for M. Gleeson; J. Walsh for B. Lynch

Manager: J. Culloty

Kerry – 1980 All-Ireland Minor Football Champions (9th title)

1 R. O'Brien 2 D. Keane 3 M. Crowley 4 M. Counihan 5 J. O'Sullivan 6 T. Sheehy 7 J.T. O'Sullivan 8 A. O'Donovan 9 P. O'Donoghue 10 T. Dee 11 J. Shannon 12 L. Kearns 13 T. Parker 14 W. Maher 15 M. McAuliffe Subs T. Spillane Manager T. Prendergast

Texaco Footballer of the Year

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